INDEX OF ARABIC MUSIC

Thursday, March 5, 2009

Nora Rahal

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Lebanese-Syrian singer/actress Nora Rahal was absent from the public eye for a long time in which she was being treated for breast cancer in Europe. She was virtually forgotten by the ever-changing music business. Thankfully, Nora was cured, and she returned in 2007 with a much stronger effort than her previous album. Dounyeti... Ahla was composed by Nora Rahal herself, Riyad El Hamshari, and a team of talented Lebanese composers: Tarek Abou Jaoudeh, George Marderosian, Iwan, and Haitham Zayyad. Aadi, Dounyeti... Ahla, and especially Azeb Albi and Ma Y'oulou are great songs that really reaffirm Nora's place in the music scene. The good tracks dominate in this album, with only one or two lackluster songs. Wel Ah is a good song but demands a much wider vocal range, and Ajmal Hawa is dull compared to the rest of this stellar album.http://tabbouchemusic.blogspot.com/2008/08/nora-rahal-dounyeti-ahla.html

Maysam Nahas

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Maysam Nahas is a Lebanese female pop star.
Maysam Nahas’s singing career began in the early 2000s with a first song and video clip “Kol Echoq” and bloomed with another album “Kaddab Kebir”.
Maysam Nahas’s latest album is “Mahdoum”.

Wednesday, March 4, 2009

The 4 Cats

The 4 Cats (Arabic: الفور كاتس‎) is a Lebanese band made up of four ladies: Dalida, Maya, Raya and Aline. They are also called, 4 Cats. The band is famous for singing oldies in Arabic. The members in the band have changed frequently.The 4 cats were created in 1998 by the Lebanese musical composer and singer [Ghassan Al-Rahbani]. The band members were Dalida, Zaina, Chantal & Rula. The reason behind naming them the 4 cats, as Ghassan stated in an interview that took a place in 1998, that 3 girls is not a convenient number and 5 is too many, so four is the best. He named them the 4 cats because cats are a very feminine and they are girly. The band did a video for a song called "Achra, Hdach, Tnash" "10, 11, 12", even though this song was featured on their first album "Tick-Tick" the video as the band stated, isn't considered to be their first and that it was leaked. After the release of this video, Rula left the band due to family problems. Rula was replaced by Nicole Saba, and after that they released a video clip for their song " Ya Nasini". The band continued recording their first album and released it in 1999. After that the band released their 2nd official video clip "Kan El-Zaman".Wikipedia

Pascale Bechara Mashaalani

Pascale Bechara Mashaalani or better known as Pascale Machaalani, born March 27, 1964 (Arabic: باسكال مشعلاني‎) is a Murex D'or Award nominated Lebanese singer. Her debut album Sahar Sahar rose her to stardom throughout the Middle East, making Mashalaani one of the most successful female artistes in the 90's Lebanon. She released her second and third albums, Nazrat Ayounak and Banadi with continued success. Her seventh studio album, Nour el Shams released in 2002 was a phenomenal success which exceeded sales of 250,000[citation needed] thus making her the first Arab singer to be certified double platinum[citation needed]. She has released thirteen hit studio albums and twenty-seven singles.Machaalani is currently one of the most active Lebanese singers and has performed in a number countries, beginning from her native Lebanon to Europe and USA. She is signed to Rotana, the biggest record company in the Middle East.Wikipedia

Monday, March 2, 2009

Zeezee Adel

Zeezee Adel is an Egyptian singer that rose to fame when she entered the famous Middle Eastern competition Star Academy during its second season. Soon after her elimination she sign a contract with Rotana, the biggest music production company in the Arab World, that included three albums and each having at least three music videos shot and the ability to release singles anytime she would like, as Zeezee being the only Star Academy graduate to receive that contract, leading to her success all over the arab world with her debut album, Wahda Tayiba which reached the number 1 spot on the Rotana top five albums, along with hits such as Hob Mosh Mahsoub Alayah (Unaccounted Love) which stayed on both Rotana and Virgin Megastore charts for as long as five months or so, Her second Single, Wahda Tanya (Another Chick), which also received great success all over the Arab World.Along with her success Zeezee won numerous awards including ART's Best New Artist and Zahrat Al Kaleej' Best Album of 2007. Zeezee is considered the most successful student to ever graduate from Star Academy.Zeezee have finished working on her 2nd studio abum Waed alia, produced by Rotana,released now. Meanwhile Zeezee released an up-beat single, Eta'awedt Alaik, I've already gotten used to you, which she is currently shooting as a music video, not to mention that the single is written and composed by herself.WIKIPEDIA

Assala Nasry

Assala was born in Damascus, Syria. She has been active since 1991. She has two children; Sham and Khaled from her first husband Ayman Al-Zahabi. They were divorced in 2005. Then she married Tarek Al-Aryan who is a famous director in 2006.
Her father Mustafa Nasry was a well known singer in Syria. He discovered her talent for singing and pushed her into the career when she was 4 years to perform children, patriotic and religious songs.She was very attached with her father who died in 1986. It was the greatest shock in her life. She stopped singing for three years and took the role as father and mother of her younger brothers and sisters: Reem, Amani, Ayman and Ayham.http://www.assalanasry.com/

Amr Mostafa

Amr Mostafa was born in Cairo,on December 31. He lived in a normal family of 2 sisters and one brother .. He was talented since his first years in schools .
Amr entered faculty of law , Cairo University . He made the university song it called "Gamaatna" and another song for the palestinian case of the judgments and he won the prize of the best composer in the university.

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